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Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"A mind thus sunk for a while below its natural standard, is qualified for stronger flights, as those first retire who would spring forward with greater vigour"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
Date: 1760-1761, 1762
"We are not to be astonished, says Confucius, 'that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue, than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way.'"
preview | full record— Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?-1774)
